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SUMMARY:Designing a Bigger Life in an AI-Enmeshed World\, at NerdFest 2026
DESCRIPTION:Session Overview\n\n\n\n\nSession Title:  AI + Me + Others + Experiments: Designing a Bigger Life in an AI-Enmeshed World \n\nJoin Dr. Gigi Johnson for a fast-paced\, delightfully nerdy keynote that re-centers you in the age of AI. In this session\, you’ll explore what it means to live and create in an AI-enmeshed world\, where your biggest accelerant isn’t the model you use—it’s how you combine your curiosity\, your collaborators\, and your willingness to run small\, bold experiments. \n\nYou’ll discover practical ways AI can help you spot meaningful signals\, design quick experiments\, and expand your creative\, entrepreneurial\, or academic projects. You’ll leave with a take-home AI Answer Card and the confidence to design your future with AI. \n\nCome curious. Leave superpowered.\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Description\n\n\n\n\nNerd Fest is a three-day celebration of the boundless world of curiosity\, exploring and connecting across an ever-expanding definition of “nerd”—from AI and the natural sciences to gaming\, media\, arts\, and culture.
URL:https://rethinknext.com/event/nerdfest-2026-designing-a-bigger-life-in-an-ai-enmeshed-world/
LOCATION:Hub 101\, Cal Lutheran\, 31416 Agoura Road\, #105\, Westlake Village\, California\, 91361\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artificial Intelligence,Conferences,Futures Events,Keynotes,Rethink Next
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SUMMARY:Music Futures Barcelona
DESCRIPTION:In conjunction with ANIMA\, Sweet Bird\, and ESMUC\, out of Spain\, to build a series of events and workshops on innovation\, creativity\, and community growth.
URL:https://rethinknext.com/event/music-futures-barcelona-2023/
LOCATION:ESMUC\, Barecelona\, Spain\, Edifici de L'Auditori\, C/ de Padilla\, 155\, L'Eixample\, Barcelona\, 08013\, Spain
CATEGORIES:Conferences,Futures Events,Keynotes,Music Conferences,Music Events,Panels,Rethink Next,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Co-Creating Futures
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Gig Johnson has given intensive workshops for three days to small groups of researchers from UIC Barcelona on new teaching methodologies: innovation\, artificial intelligence\, and creativity. The Co-creating Futures days\, in which Johnson participated\, were promoted by the Aula de Calidad e Innovación Docente de UIC Barcelona with the collaboration of the Puig Foundation\, which provides resources for scholarships and grants for teaching innovation. The Aula de Calidad e Innovación Docente was born with the aim of responding to the interest of teachers to implement innovation initiatives and projects in the classroom\, and to promote the continuous improvement of the teaching processes of all the teachers of UIC Barcelona. To this end\, dynamics are generated in the classroom that favor teaching innovation or that foster the concern for research in teaching innovation. \nFacebook Reels: https://www.facebook.com/reel/731409002184226 
URL:https://rethinknext.com/event/co-creating-futures/
LOCATION:UIC Barcelona\, Immaculada\, 22\, Barcelona\, 08017\, Spain
CATEGORIES:Conferences,Education,Educational Technology,Futures Events,Higher Education,Keynotes,Panels,Rethink Next,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Music Futures Navarra
DESCRIPTION:This event is the first common initiative between the Innova Program\, promoted by the Caja Navarra Foundation and the “la Caixa” Foundation\, and the Navarra Music Commission\, a music office integrated into NICDO and promoted by the Government of Navarra.\n\nThe Navarra Music Commission\, a music office integrated into NICDO and promoted by the Government of Navarra\, and the Innova Program\, of the “la Caixa” Foundation\, and the Caja Navarra Foundation jointly organize the activity.  Navarra Music Futures was a debate on the present and future of the creative industry open to companies or professionals dedicated to the musical and audiovisual field in all its aspects\, as well as any creative company related to the cultural fabric of the Foral Community of Navarra.\n\nThe appointment will take place in the Corona de Baluarte room this Friday\, November 17\, at 5:00 p.m.\, and the star will be Gigi Johnson\, founder of the UCLA Musical Innovation Institute (University of Los Angeles\, California)\, co-founder of Amplify Music.org\, president of the Center for Creative Futures in the US\, and doctor in Leadership for Change.\n\nNavarra Music Futures is an annual event that seeks to bring together companies and agents from the music sector and creative industries in Navarra to discuss the present and future of the local cultural industry to promote innovation\, development\, and creativity in this field.\n\nDuring the day\, dynamic discussion and learning opportunities are offered to help implement new skills and strategies for success in the music industry. The event features the aforementioned international mentoring to provide a global perspective and help advance and improve the local creative industry community.\n\nThis meeting represents the first collaborative experience between the Innova Program (promoted by the Caja Navarra Foundation and the “la Caixa” Foundation) and the Navarra Music Commission (integrated into the public company NICDO and promoted by the Government of Navarra). It is an alliance that provides experience and knowledge\, as well as the ability to generate a network of entities\, professionals\, and companies in the sector.
URL:https://rethinknext.com/event/music-futures-navarra/
LOCATION:Corona de Baluarte\, pl. del Baluarte\, Pamplona\, Spain
CATEGORIES:Conferences,Futures Events,Keynotes,Music Conferences,Music Events,Panels,Rethink Next,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Changing Ecosystems of Creative Work — at SyBER
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Gigi Johnson was the virtual plenary speaker at Westcliff University’s 6th Annual SyBER Symposium: “Staying Ahead of the Curve: Innovation in Action.”  This event was open to Westcliff students\, alumni and faculty. \nChanging ecosystems of local and creative work in this Pandemic era and beyond\nWithin days in 2020\, we moved our creative and professional works “home” and exploded our sense of place and work.  How have we Reimagined Place?  How can we change our local creative work systems and how are they changing as the nature of “place” is being rethought?   \nPromo:\n \nSession\nSession:
URL:https://rethinknext.com/event/virtual-keynote-changing-ecosystems-of-creative-work/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Education,Futures Events,Higher Education,Keynotes,Rethink Next,Technology
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SUMMARY:Post-Pandemic Libraries: The Upcoming Era of Change
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Gigi Johnson opened the March 17 Virtual Workshop for the Friends of the National Library of Medicine. \nVideo: https://www.fnlm.org/post-pandemic-libraries-the-upcoming-era-of-change-march-17-2022-access/ \nPost-Pandemic Libraries: The Upcoming Era of Change\nThe COVID-19 global pandemic instantly reshaped how libraries function—from services to workflows\, from technologies to communications. As librarians continue to adjust to these sudden changes\, there remains the question of to what degree these changes will stick\, especially as the world’s population encounters future global shifts. Numerous lessons were learned during this pandemic\, but which ones will shape and improve the library profession? How will the social artifacts of our current pandemic become embedded in our organizations\, creating a “new normal” as well as pathways for new models of work? How have the information needs and behaviors of our user communities informed our libraries’ adaptations during the pandemic\, and how will we continue to meet their diverse needs in the long term? The keynote speakers and panelists will share and discuss how libraries\, particularly in the medical and health sciences fields\, can leverage change to create more agile\, informed\, and impactful libraries and librarians and to forge a more exciting and advanced future for librarianship. Join us as we shape tomorrow’s libraries. \nSponsored by: Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries\, Elsevier\, and Oxford PharmaGenesis\nSCHEDULE – All Times EST\n\n10:00 -10:10 AMWelcome and Introduction: Glen Campbell\, Chairman of the Board of Directors\, Friends of the National Library of Medicine\n10:15 – 11:00 AMOpening Keynote\, Gigi Johnson\, Maremel Institute\n11:05 – 11:50 AMTaking Action on COVID Lessons LearnedModerator: Melissa DeSantis\, Chair\, Association of Academic Health Sciences LibrariesSandra Franklin\, Emory UniversityKelvin Watson\, Las Vegas-Clark County Public Library DistrictBeth Whipple\, Indiana University\, Bart Ragon\, University of Virginia\, and Melissa Rethlefsen\, The University of New Mexico Health Sciences CenterPatricia Devine\, University of Washington\n11:55 AM – 12:30 PMMeal Break\n12:30 – 1:15 PMFuture of SpaceModerator: Anne Seymour\, Johns Hopkins UniversityDianne Babski\, National Library of MedicineDan Wilson\, University of VirginiaTim Tripp\, University Health NetworkCatherine Soehner\, University of Utah\n1:20 – 2:05 PMOrganizational Design/DevelopmentModerator: Tara Landry – President\, Canadian Health Libraries Association/Association des bibliothèques de la santé du CanadaDavid Lankes\, University of Texas\, AustinChris Shaffer\, University of California\, San FranciscoElaine Westbrooks\, the University of North Carolina at Chapel HillBridgit McCafferty and Lisa Hopkins\, Texas A&M University-Central Texas\n2:05 – 2:20 PMBreak\n2:20 – 3:05 PMBold Librarianship/Bold Library LeadershipMaureen Sullivan\, Maureen Sullivan AssociatesHannah Rutledge\, University of PennsylvaniaJonathan Cain\, Columbia UniversityLaMoya Burks\, Texarkana College\n3:05 – 3:15 PMWrap-upShannon Jones\, Medical University of South CarolinaHannah Rutledge\, University of Pennsylvania
URL:https://rethinknext.com/event/virtual-keynote-futures-of-work/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Futures Events,Keynotes
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SUMMARY:Keynote — at UC Cyber Security Virtual Summit
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Gigi Johnson keynoted this virtual event\, sharing “Augmenting Selves: Creating Lives and Futures in a Trained and Tracked Digital World”. \nDr. Johnson’s world changed two years ago. After two decades of work with companies and at UCLA exploring digital disruption\, an illness made her rethink how her own life and brain work with augmenting and nagging technologies. Our many challenges in this hyper-curated world are not just from our smart devices\, digital tools\, and platform marketplaces. She will challenge us to look as system designers and decision-makers at the darker underside of how digital systems train us to make major and minor life decisions\, how we can create digital extensions for a more focused life\, and how we can rethink how we learn and create in this trained and tracked digital world. \nThe event was the 10th Biannual UC Cyber Security Summit.   \nLink to Program
URL:https://rethinknext.com/event/uc-cybersecurity-keynote/
LOCATION:California
CATEGORIES:Futures Events,Keynotes
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